Posted on 05/17/2023 4:22:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A young Mexican mom who strangled a man with a T-shirt after he raped her has been convicted in his killing and sentenced to more than six years in prison — in a case that sparked protests and backlash in the country.
The Mexico State Court found Monday that while Roxana Ruiz had been raped, she was guilty of homicide with “excessive use of legitimate defense,” adding that hitting her attacker in the head would have been enough to defend herself.
Ruiz’s lawyers swiftly slammed the ruling as “discriminatory” and vowed to appeal, arguing that it sets a bad precedent in a country plagued by gender-based violence. “It’s sending the message to women that, you know what, the law says you can defend yourself, but only to a point,” said Ángel Carrera, Ruiz’s defense attorney.
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It’s prudent. What she did is no different.
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Indubitably TRUE!
Common for rapists to kill their victims. So this is a case of self-defense.
” One of the criteria is if you can disengage and get away, there’s no justification for killing.” In my opinion, that’s a stupid criteria, since a member of the general public has just confirmed the individual is a threat to society, and should do us all a favor and make society that little bit safer. Has to be something lawyers came up with to keep themselves employed and feeding at the public tax dollars trough. My nickel’s worth (due to inflation).
Its because at that point you become a willing participant, when you could have just gotten away. Thats how the law views it. On a case by case basis people can and do find themselves in situations they couldn’t get away and thats the option thats employed, but its not a excuse to get revenge and commit murder if the deadly threat isn’t imminent and you can’t remove yourself from the situation. People of course can make their case for their decisions and very well may find the court/jury agrees.
Not every jurisdiction has “duty to retreat” laws. Many have “castle doctrine”.
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but no instead she fought back and now she pays for it with prison...
no winning this rape game...you need video, your underwear will be checked, your history, and you need lots of money to protect your character, and if you fight back, you still loose.
She should have just cut up the body and dumped it in acid.
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